Editors' Review

The Net has led to a resurgence in animation, largely thanks to Macromedia's Flash format. This nifty program extends the capabilities of Macromedia's own Flash player, allowing you to rewind and fast-forward though Flash-based movies. Supporting both SWF and EXE file formats, it provides the ability to resize and watch videos in full-screen mode, and lets users create playlists and extract movies from the Internet Explorer or Mozilla caches. The features worked well with all the videos we tested. If you're a Flash movie fan, you might want to give this program a try.

Publisher's Description

Flash Movie Player is a standalone player for Shockwave Flash (SWF) animations, based on Macromedia Flash Player plug-in. In addition to all Macromedia Flash Player abilities, it has a lot of extended features, such as playlists, animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, .exe projectors support, Internet browser cache integration and multilingual interface. Moreover, Flash Movie Player can extract flash movies from .exe projector files and save them in SWF format and has hotkeys for all frequent operations for convenient flash animations watching.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

-It does what it's meant to do.-Plays flash files decently, with all the basics of Adobe Flash player-Has an interesting feature I have yet to see which is that it can make a playlist of flash files

Cons

-Very basic in tools and appearance

Summary

For those who work a lot in flash, and need a program to view the flash files, specially with several clips or Scenes as flash puts it, this is a good tool to use. I use it every day when I work on flash, review clips, and the transition between them. It's a very nice flash playing program, the best I've seen!

I wanted to view online video like utube. The online help said I had to cut and paste the url of the video into the player. A bit of a hassle, but that's what I did. The video didn't play. A message came up that said "The data necessary to complete this operation not yet available"

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